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Natsume Sōseki

“In the old days, a man was taught to forget himself. Today it is quite different: he is taught not to forget himself and he accordingly spends his days and nights in endless self-regard. Who can possibly know peace in such an eternally burning hell? The apparent realities of this awful world, even the beast lines of being, are all symptoms of that sickness for which the only cure lies in learning to forget the self.”

Natsume Sōseki, I Am a Cat
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I Am a Cat I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki
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